New South Wales motorists drove the furthest, travelling 74,566 million kilometres. Victorian motorists were next and drove a total of 68,030 million kilometres.

Northern Territory drivers travelled the least distance, at a total of 2,185 million kilometres.

Distance travelled by state and territory aligns closely with the proportion of registered vehicles. New South Wales had the highest proportion of the national fleet (29%) and the largest share of total kilometres travelled (29%). In contrast the Northern Territory reported the smallest proportion of kilometres travelled (1%) and the smallest proportion of registered vehicles (1%).

Victoria had the highest road freight estimate, transporting 55,450 million tonne-kilometres, followed by Queensland (49,038 million tonne-kilometres), New South Wales (48,709 million tonne-kilometres) and Western Australia (35,953 million tonne-kilometres).

In total 34,170 megalitres of fuel were consumed, 51.4% petrol and 45.8% diesel.

Passenger vehicles consumed 19,486 megalitres of fuel, more than any other vehicle type, of which 80.2% (15,635 megalitres) was petrol.

Light commercial vehicles used a total of 6,537 megalitres of fuel. Diesel accounted for 71.4% (4,669 megalitres) and petrol accounted for 26.4% (1,728 megalitres).

Of the 7,308 megalitres of fuel consumed by rigid and articulated trucks, diesel accounted for 59.8%.

On average, articulated trucks had the highest rate of fuel consumption per vehicle at 55.2 litres per 100 kilometres. In contrast, the average rate of fuel consumption per passenger vehicle was 10.8 litres per 100 kilometres.